by Christian Neumanns

The advantages of Document Markup Languages vs WYSIWYG editors

An explanation of why you might want to dump your word processor.

Introduction

Did you ever wonder what’s the best tool to write an article, user manual, book, or any other kind of text document?

There are many options to choose from. Most people use a What-You-See-Is-What-You-Get (WYSIWYG) editor (also called a text processor), such as Google Docs, LibreOffice or Word. However, more and more people are writing their documents…